GREAT OLD MOVIES

I'm still not over my vacation -- which was wonderful -- but GREAT OLD MOVIES will be back later this month! 

Jun Haver and John Payne WAKE UP AND DREAM  (1946). Director: Lloyd Bacon.  Jeff Cairn (John Payne) lives with his little sister, Nella (Con...

Jon Hall as Ali ALI BABA AND THE FORTY THIEVES (1944). Director: Arthur Lubin.  Prince Ali (Scotty Becket) of Baghdad is the son of the king...

THE QUEEN OF TECHNICOLOR: MARIA MONTEZ IN HOLLYWOOD . Tom Zimmerman. University Press of Kentucky; 2022. NOTE: This review based on uncorrec...

ROUND UP OF NEW AND RECENT FILMS PART NINE. Hipsters  ( Stilyagi /2008) is a Russian musical set in Moscow in 1955. Mels (Anton Shagin) belo...

FILMS I JUST COULDN'T FINISH ROUND SIX .  As noted previously, these are not reviews, per se, but notes on films that I watched or suffe...

Jon Hall and Maria Montez ARABIAN NIGHTS  (1942). Director: John Rawlins.    Sentenced to a slow death for trying to usurp the throne from h...

Is this really a star? Ruby Keeler 42ND STREET  (1933). Director: Lloyd Bacon.  Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter), who has already had one nervou...

Wedded bliss? Fred Allen and Ginger Rogers WE'RE NOT MARRIED  (1952). Director: Edmund Goulding. " I'll say one thing about our...

George Brent and Jane Powell LUXURY LINER  (1948). Director: Richard Whorf.  Widower Jeremy Bradford (George Brent) is the captain of a luxu...

Edward G. Robinson and Mary Astor THE MAN WITH TWO FACES (1934), Director: Archie Mayo.  " The second act is still a fine piece of Lim...

Eliot Ness and his Untouchables THE SCARFACE MOB  (1959). Director: Phil Karlson.  With bootlegging gangsters like Al Capone (Neville Brand ...

Mills, Mathers, McGuire, Hodges, Pollard SUMMER MAGIC  (1963). Director: James Neilson. Widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire of Susan Slade...

BUZZ: THE LIFE AND ART OF BUSBY BERKELEY . Jeffrey Spivak. University Press of Kentucky; 2010.  In this well-written and interesting account...

Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills THE CHALK GARDEN  (1964). Director: Ronald Neame.  Miss Madrigal (Deborah Kerr) is the latest in a long line o...

THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS (1972). Director: James Goldstone.  Chief of Police Marsh (James Garner) investigates when a woman is found de...

Hayley Mills POLLYANNA   (1960). Director: David Swift.  Now that she has become an orphan, young Pollyana (Hayley Mills) is shipped off to ...

Jean Simmons and Burt Lancaster ELMER GANTRY (1960). Director: Richard Brooks.   " He rammed the fist of God into me so fast that I ne...

FOREVER YOUNG: A MEMOIR.  Hayley Mills. Grand Central; 2021. In this very well-written and completely absorbing memoir, Hayley Mills begins ...

Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo SOUTH SEA WOMAN (1953). Director: Arthur Lubin.  Through a series of misadventures Sergeant James O'He...

Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933  (1933). Director: Mervyn LeRoy.  Carol (Joan Blondell), Trixie (Aline MacMahon) and Polly ...

  Polishing up some exciting new projects. GREAT OLD MOVIES will return in July, if not sooner! 

Victoria Shaw and Cornel Wilde EDGE OF ETERNITY       (1959). Director: Don Siegel.  Near the Grand Canyon, Deputy Les Martin (Cornel Wilde ...

Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED   (1986).  Director: Francis (Ford) Coppola.  Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) is separate...

AGE OF CAGE: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career . Keith Phipps. Henry Holt; 2022.  Author Phipps makes it clear right fro...